What about Kerenza instead - similar sound. But....if the name has meaning for you then i'd use it - it's not always about how it sounds etc. Sometimes it's nice to do something just because. This is from the person who almost called their son a name and then changed it because in the local accent is sounded too like a girls name. Then we moved and found we'd named him the same a roundabout.

Kinvara is Cinn Mhara, 'head of the sea', and a nice little coastal village in Galway. It has a nice ring to it, a pretty name. Mara is nice too -- means sea in Irish..

Other long and unusual names:GuinevereGenevieveRaphaellaVeronicaAugustinaValentinaTheodosiaPenelopePersephoneEvangelineEmmelineEvalinaGeorgianaSeraphinaMelisandeConstanzaAnastasiaMagdalenaGabriellaChristiana

Not quite sure why it would be a problem that Kinvara is a place name when other place names such as Iona, India, Paris, Jordan are also place names?! As a middle name she wouldn't spend her life explaining it or correcting the pronunciation!!!

its a place name,dreadful child name.unless you want to be obtuse and differentdifferent usually means a lifetime of slow pronunciation,explanation inflicted by nameif you like kinvara so much introduce self socially as it, yes just call me kinvara.see the reaction

Elekra I agree that Kinvara Hope sounds better BUT we have our hearts set on Hope and Kinvara doesn't flow so well with our surname. Hope sounds like the perfect middle name, along the lines of Grace, Rose etc but we really want it for a first name.Kinvara not sounding too popular amongst Mumsnetters! We're just finding it really hard to think of a middle name for Hope!